Life Lessons Tag

April Rinne cannot be described with simple labels. She helps companies, policy makers, and non-profits navigate the new economy. She's a global citizen, having visited over 100 countries in her lifetime and is a "career portfolioist." And while she works for herself, don't for a second...

This Week: RadJobs launches, Creativity as an act of rebellion and what we can learn from how we judge others Happy weekend everybody and welcome to our new subscribers from the Delivering Alpha conference. The average worker gets 147 emails a day, so it’s a privilege to...

Spoiler alert: the Four Seasons is not a silver bullet This originally appeared as a postscript to my weekly newsletter. Sign up here! There’s a statistic that entrepreneurs have a 95% failure rate. Rationally, it makes very little sense to pursue that career path; you need a dose of...

Proceed with Caution or Emulate What Worked? Note: This first appeared as a post-script to the RadReads e-mail newsletter (Subscribe)
I wanted to explore a question that gets asked frequently, particularly from our younger readers. It goes: I’m [22] years old early and early in my career. Once...

Our inner dialogue is so intense it deserves a name We all have that voice in our head. It can be loud, demanding, and sometimes outright nasty. It needs to be, right? After all, keeps our laziness and complacency at bay. That then lets us continue down...

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The Surprising Obstacle Holding Talented Folks Back from Entrepreneurship photo courtesy of screenrant.com When I left finance over a year ago, I conducted a “farewell tour” of sorts with colleagues, friends, acquaintances, clients, and other professionals I had met over the decade and a half. When they...

The “Spoiler of the Present” I want to play through a few situations, many of which will be eerily familiar to you: Making a sales pitch to a big client
Giving a Best Man (or Maid of Honor) speech at a wedding
Forgetting your unlimited Metrocard at home
Losing your luggage...

…And instead I ended up unclenching my heart Pexels
I’ll admit it. I started meditating to be more like Kobe Bryant or Ray Dalio than the Dalai Lama. As a Self-Identifying “Productivity-Hacker” (with evolving views) and Aspirational “High-Performer,” I was always on the prowl for a new tool...

Does a focusing on the headline number come with onerous terms?
Dirty Unicorn
Last week, famed Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley wrote a heavily circulated piece called “On the Road to Recap: Why The Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous for All of Us.” The gist of the story...